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Featured Activity of the Month
Featured Activity of the Month
DIY Stress Ball
You can use your creation as a fidget or calming toy to destress and reduce anxiety related to online learning. Print free instructions to make a DIY stress ball at home, and read our article: Promoting Success with Online Learning via Regulation Strategies.
Polar Bear Speech Activity
Create this fun and interactive craft to help your child develop their language skills and fluency in a fun way. This activity focuses on articulation, language, fluency, and social skills. Use sentences instead of words on the fish or change the activity to best suit your needs.
Snowflake Scooter Activity
This versatile activity can be changed up throughout the year to a different theme. Different winter theme instead of tree trunk with snow flakes could build a snowman. If you don’t have a scooter board, the kiddos could do animal walks to and from point A to B.
DIY Confetti Poppers
This DIY confetti popper activity promotes visual and fine motor skills with creating and decorating your very own reusable confetti poppers. Sensory motor comes into play with the different textures of the supplies.
Sensory Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
This simple game encourages children to explore their surroundings and associate objects with their corresponding letters.
Family-Friendly Exercise
Exercising together can be a fun way to build a foundation for the future - focus on moving together in the New Year!
New Year Vision Board
Create a helpful resource to stay motivated througout the year! Creating a vision board can help articulate what is important or motivating - for both kids and adults!
Snowball Transfer Game
Oral motor skill development and breath coordination is important skills in eating and speech. This activity increases lip closure, lip strength, breath coordination, and visual-motor planning to adequately move the snowballs from one container to another.
Winter Tracing Fun
Promotion of visual-motor integration and fine-motor skill development for tracing, cutting, gluing, and increased creativity to construct the winter scene!
Make a Snowstorm in a Jar
This activity is great for sequencing, following direction, auditory processing skill development, and sensory input for calming.